Woo! Some people in body armor and spandex! Fighting on a street! On a borrowed weird motorcycle! With goggles that lying around!

I couldn't care less about this one being good. In fact the more I think about it the more I know it will likely disappoint everyone. Whenever someone mounts a Batman adaptation they always leave some key element out. With the Nolan-verse it's the character's spirit and escapist element of being a vigilante that gets dropped along with the Gothic gloom.

And try as I do, I still can't see this as Batman. It's just a guy growling in some body armor. Then he sits around and "thinks/broods". Then the plot becomes overcomplicated twists and turns involving elements of the criminal underworld being manipulated by the arch villains and vice versa. This isn't freaking The Long Halloween or Hush people! And if you want to make a film more like the graphic novels, then don't reduce the story! It's like someone reads a bunch of long story arcs and then takes a few of the overall arcs and throws them in a blender. I swear if this one tries to toss in some ideas of Knightfall...

I do actually enjoy the first Superman film, and like some of the ideas in the second. I still need to see the Donner cut. Reeve makes for a great hero, but when I think of Supes, I think of the Fleischers. They just scream Superman. And they don't have any of the hokeniess that creeps in occasionally on the live action films. That said, I think the dialogue in the second half is what really makes the first film work. "Otisburg?" And that's Tom Mankewicz doing some fantastic script doctoring.